Teaching Council Election Confusion

Teaching Council Election Confusion

Teaching Council Election voting papers have recently been posted out to all teachers registered with the Teaching Council. Teachers were supplied with two Ballot Papers – one for the female candidates and one for the male candidates. Teachers were asked to vote...
Guest Post: Reading – A Gift For Life

Guest Post: Reading – A Gift For Life

Reading for pleasure – it’s a no-brainer, really, isn’t it? It’s so obvious that it’s a really great thing to encourage children to read, I nearly feel a bit sheepish saying it. It’s like motherhood and apple pie. Who could be against it? (Bang-bang, you’re dead. When...
Gifted Education Links

Gifted Education Links

This week is Gifted Education Awareness Week (GEAW).  Its aim is to encourage teacher awareness of Exceptionally Able pupils in the classroom and to help overcome the myths about these pupils. By recognising the educational needs of Exceptionally Able pupils the...
Guest Post: Subbing – A Way of Life

Guest Post: Subbing – A Way of Life

My dream has always been to work in education. I love learning, I love exploring, imagining, discovering. When I graduated into the primary sector I began to dream about my classroom: What will it look like? What will the pupils be like? The school? All sorts of...
Our School Community QR Codes

Our School Community QR Codes

A member of staff in my school recently organised an eye-catching and colourful display board in the entrance foyer to our school. It was called “Our School Community”. Every pupil in the school drew and coloured a small “head and shoulders”...
Trócaire Lenten Resources 2012

Trócaire Lenten Resources 2012

Next Wednesday, February 22nd marks the beginning of Lent 2012 and, as usual, the Trócaire charity has produced some great classroom resources to coincide with the season of Lent. Uganda is the focus of the resources this year and there are separate resources for...